>Hey, we agree on something.
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>Philly has a program in some schools where all kids get the free lunch, rather than figuring out which kids qualified. Some of the problems with the free lunch program are that parents have to apply and that it can be apparent which kids are getting it, which is a big issue especially in high school. In a school where most kids qualify, there's an argument to be made that giving it to all kids is a better choice than hoping parents will apply and kids will use it.
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>http://www.hungercoalition.org/summary-universal-feeding-and-CNR-goals
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>Tamar

It does appear USDA is trying to do something to make the process simpler.

I've said this many times - I worked in WIC from 1989 through the mid-1990's. I was part of a data-crunching team that was part of a process to get peanut butter back on the WIC food list for little kids. I was in every country health/WIC clinic in Georgia (all 270+ of them). No infant should be going without formula/milk and no kid should be walking around hungry.

There's no question that stigmatizing the "poor kids" is damaging. I forget who it was, but some moron representative in Georgia wanted poor kids to clean school bathrooms, sweep school floors in order to get their free lunch. Unbelievable.